The Devil May Cry reboot had terrible writing on a game with decent game-play which reviews sucking it off even worse the LACWAC on TCW

I haven't played it, but I've never been a fan of Devil May Cry (though I remember really enjoying DMC3). Still, has DMC ever been a game series you play for its writing?

Yeah I hear they took the cheeseyness that made it so endearing and replaced it with cringe inducing moments of attempting to be edgy. For example having Vorgil kill a pregnant Demon woman and her baby, or the overuse of "**** you!" in an attempt to make Donte cool

(Seriously, DmC [why the lower case 'm'? WHY?! It doesn't make you look hip and cool; it makes you look stupid.] demonstrates why I don't get all happy happy joy joy for reboots, as they always expose how quickly popular teenage culture changes in just a few short years, now picture that change over thirty years and you realise that you'll get the most eye-rolling universe possible for all audiences over 16-years of age who are made to realise they aren't 16 anymore.)

I've never played DmC, all I know is this game does not induce a desire to attempt to play it. Though, I have no holdovers personally, since I never played the last few. Just looks like a bad game, and I don't intend to waste money on things that look bad. Games are too expensive to experiment.

Episode VII will obliterate that canon landscape, possibly rendering decades worth of story null and void

Lucas may not be overly considerate of the books, but he's had way too much personal input into them, and taken way too much out of them, for your "books don't count" theory to hold water. TFU was largely his idea - does it "count"? He advised them to kill Anakin Solo - does that "count"?

It's one thing to be an absolute inclusionist, but the second you say "the Star Wars franchise is only really media X", five contradictions to that rule will always pop up.

Such as a character meets another character in a room with alot of bright light, the character entering the room sheilds his eyes and the character inside the room tells a computer or droids to tint the windows?

While I'd laugh my head off if that happened, I'm... hesitant if I'd want it included, as it'd be very much a joke that ten years from now nobody would understand, which could make it feel lame when people tried to introduce their kids to the sequels the way people presently are introducing them to the existing films.

Episode VII will obliterate that canon landscape, possibly rendering decades worth of story null and void

Lucas may not be overly considerate of the books, but he's had way too much personal input into them, and taken way too much out of them, for your "books don't count" theory to hold water. TFU was largely his idea - does it "count"? He advised them to kill Anakin Solo - does that "count"?

It's one thing to be an absolute inclusionist, but the second you say "the Star Wars franchise is only really media X", five contradictions to that rule will always pop up.

Thanks, you just made my point. It's only what the company considers that "counts". Disney may not see it as Lucas did. And I felt the killing of Anakin Solo was to get rid of another "Anakin". Be that as it may, the EU is simply a resource pool at this point. They could drain it completely after fishing out what they desire, or that might respect every spec of detail and event, and the latter sounds far less likely to me. I imagine Disney sees the EU like they see the Marvel Comics, it has some fun stuff, but we don't have to slavishly accommodate those fans.

Star Wars begins and ends with these new films, it really does at this point. If VII says Luke never had a boy, never married Mara Jade, if Han and Leia don't have their twins and the boy, if Chewbacca is alive, well, see what I mean? At this point, it really does begin and end with the decisions this film makes.

While I'd laugh my head off if that happened, I'm... hesitant if I'd want it included, as it'd be very much a joke that ten years from now nobody would understand, which could make it feel lame when people tried to introduce their kids to the sequels the way people presently are introducing them to the existing films.

it would be sort of like the Mass Effect sequals and "elevator" jokes in 2 and 3.

(Seriously, DmC [why the lower case 'm'? WHY?! It doesn't make you look hip and cool; it makes you look stupid.] demonstrates why I don't get all happy happy joy joy for reboots, as they always expose how quickly popular teenage culture changes in just a few short years, now picture that change over thirty years and you realise that you'll get the most eye-rolling universe possible for all audiences over 16-years of age who are made to realise they aren't 16 anymore.)

I've never played DmC, all I know is this game does not induce a desire to attempt to play it. Though, I have no holdovers personally, since I never played the last few. Just looks like a bad game, and I don't intend to waste money on things that look bad. Games are too expensive to experiment.

Either of you tried the demo? It requires one hell of a lot of dexterity in terms of L-R coordination, far too much for my liking but for those that have it, the system probably offers a good amount of possibilities.

As to the ST, have to admit I favour the idea of Plagueis returning, it'd fit the hokey style of SW plus there's the sheer fun of him entering the stage for the first time, as chaos is erupting across the galaxy at his command:

Who are you?
Do you remember Darth Sidious? He almost killed you boy, until your father interfered!
And?
I am Darth Plagueis, it was I who put Sidious on the road to all that he became, it was I who began the ruin of the Republic, it was I who was the master of the Sith and galaxy then.... and now.

The idea of a super-bad super-Emperor who Vader could not stand against, who Luke must fight and prevail against, fits. Plus, it was first mentioned in ROTS so effectively set up there retroactively. Of course, this would also have the effect of restoring Luke to the top of the pecking order over Anakin!

Thanks, you just made my point. It's only what the company considers that "counts". Disney may not see it as Lucas did. And I felt the killing of Anakin Solo was to get rid of another "Anakin". Be that as it may, the EU is simply a resource pool at this point. They could drain it completely after fishing out what they desire, or that might respect every spec of detail and event, and the latter sounds far less likely to me. I imagine Disney sees the EU like they see the Marvel Comics, it has some fun stuff, but we don't have to slavishly accommodate those fans.

The idea of a super-bad super-Emperor who Vader could not stand against, who Luke must fight and prevail against, fits. Plus, it was first mentioned in ROTS so effectively set up there retroactively. Of course, this would also have the effect of restoring Luke to the top of the pecking order over Anakin!

Yeah, the foreshadowing and thematisation of his return is the reason it's still my favourite prospect.

I've always liked the feel of the Jedi's Son having to fight the Sith's Father, so to speak, which would fit the theme of the new taking the place of the old (which, obviously, if there was a reboot, would carry even more relevance).

(And your defence of DmC made no effort to defend its stupid noncapitalisation "trendiness" )

I've never played DmC, all I know is this game does not induce a desire to attempt to play it. Though, I have no holdovers personally, since I never played the last few. Just looks like a bad game, and I don't intend to waste money on things that look bad. Games are too expensive to experiment.

I'm patient, so I just buy the games when they go down in price. Exceptions are made for either games I feel I must support or games that I can't wait for.

Hell, I just bought Bioshock 2 a week ago. I've been meaning to get that game for years.

Actually, I got irritated with it and deleted the demo! Much as I did Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance!

Haven't played that yet either... I love Metal Gear Solid. It was my favorite series as a kid. As wacky as MGS4 got at points, I thought the entire thing was one of the most satisfying games I've ever played. Should I prepared to be disappointed?

Bioshock was simply a beautiful game. The opening sequence is one of the best from a video game since the landmark Half-Life one. The writing was stellar, and the atmosphere perfect. YMMV, as always, but it just hit the right buttons for a lot of people.

Bioshock 2 was a cash-in, pure and simple, that didn't include the original creator (who is involved with Infinite) and was blatantly obvious in its focus on multiplayer to the detriment of the single-player game. Not as bad a sequel as, say, the infamous Deus Ex: Invisible War, but didn't add much to the original world. The irony is that the ARG for Bioshock 2 was actually quite good, and the DLC for it was more interesting than the main game itself.

I imagine Disney sees the EU like they see the Marvel Comics, it has some fun stuff, but we don't have to slavishly accommodate those fans.

Exactly, look how they negated the entire Marvel Comics universe to accommodate the movies... wait a second, no they didn't.

Let's wait and see what happens. Ultimately, if they decide to dump the EU, then there's plenty of other things I - and others - to spend disposal income on. But they might want to check with how Star Wars was doing just prior to to the release of Heir to the Empire before making any decisions.